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registered interest
date	10/10/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what change there has been in staffing levels in his Department since June 2016.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	177727
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2018 answer text <p>Details of changes to Armed Forces staffing levels since June 2016 can be found via the links below:</p><p><strong>Armed Forces Personnel</strong></p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/uk-armed-forces-monthly-service-personnel-statistics-2016</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/uk-armed-forces-monthly-service-personnel-statistics-2017*</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/quarterly-service-personnel-statistics-2018</p><p>*The publication of Armed Forces staffing levels changed from monthly to quarterly following the release of the 1 October 2017 edition.</p><p><strong>Civilian Personnel</strong></p><p>Details of MOD civilian staffing levels are published within the Biannual Civilian Personnel Report (BCPR). A link to the BCPR can be found below:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/mod-biannual-civilian-personnel-statisticsindex</p><p>Prior to the biannual change on 1 April 2018, civilian personnel statistics were published quarterly in the Quarterly Civilian Personnel Report; a link to these historic reports can be found below:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/mod-civilian-personnel-quarterly-statistics-index</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 19/10/2018 12:11:53 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

890451

registered interest
date	24/04/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to make up its shortfall in personnel.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	137559
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2018 answer text <p>We are committed to maintaining the overall size of the Armed Forces. The Services are meeting all their current commitments. To help address Armed Forces manning challenges the Ministry of Defence has introduced its Armed Forces People Programme to modernise the employment offer including scope for flexible working and a new Forces' Accommodation Model. The individual Services have also implemented a wide range of programmes including:</p><p>The Royal Navy/Royal Marines have the Personnel Recovery Programme which includes initiatives to improve inflow (gains to trained strength); throughflow (changes to training pipelines, promotions and accelerated throughput); and outflow (improving retention and reducing voluntary outflow).</p><p>The Army is implementing improvements to recruitment and training policy and practices; targeted financial retention incentives; and a strategy to attract personnel to re-join the Army.</p><p>The RAF has established Enterprise Collaboration Teams to oversee a range of recruitment initiatives for critical skills groups, including the appointments of Specialist Recruitment Teams for hard to recruit branches and trades, BAME and female personnel. A new initiative has also been introduced to encourage personnel to re-join the Service.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 02/05/2018 15:26:04 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

776138

registered interest
date	23/10/2017
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to retain personnel with significant cyber knowledge and expertise.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	109150
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2017 answer text <p>Identifying, developing and retaining cyber expertise remains a high priority for Defence. The Defence Cyber Programme is responsible for developing and delivering a sustainable cyber profession. We work with a variety of stakeholders on a number of initiatives across Defence, allies, wider Government, academia and industry.</p><p>A Defence Cyber Aptitude Test has been developed for the Ministry of Defence to enable us to identify personnel with the latent talent suitable for selection to undertake training for specialist cyber roles.</p><p>The new Defence Cyber School located at Shrivenham will be at the forefront of the development and delivery of coherent cyber training across Defence and wider Government. The Defence Cyber Skills Competence Framework is aligned with industry skills frameworks to enable us to identify and track personnel with varying levels of cyber knowledge and expertise.</p><p>Analysis has shown that development and delivery of a sustainable cyber career is a key element in retaining cyber Suitably Qualified and Experienced Personnel (SQEP). The Cyber Professional Employment Model alongside other initiatives is being utilised to develop and begin to assure a career pathway for cyber professionals.</p><p>The Cyber Reserves also provide opportunities for Defence to retain cyber SQEP otherwise due to leave the Services: personnel with the appropriate cyber skillsets can apply for transfer to the Cyber Reserves, having left regular Service and while undertaking civilian cyber employment.</p><p>Defence deeply values the cyber knowledge and expertise of our staff, and works continually to monitor and enhance the methods in place in order to retain these skills.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 30/10/2017 16:07:20 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

715600

registered interest
date	30/03/2017
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many people are currently employed by his Department.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	70082
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2017 answer text <p>As of 1 January 2017 the total headcount of the Ministry of Defence (MOD) civilian personnel strength was 57,870.</p><p> </p><p>This information is published within the MOD quarterly civilian personnel statistics report 2017 which can be found on the Gov.uk website at the following link –</p><p> </p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/mod-civilian-personnel-quarterly-report-2017</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 19/04/2017 15:23:01 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

712920

registered interest
date	21/03/2017
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many civilians are employed directly by his Department; and what progress is being made towards the target of employing no more than 41,000 civilians in that Department by 2020-21.
tabling member constituency	Dunfermline and West Fife
tabling member printed	Douglas Chapman
uin	68709
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2017 answer text <p>As at 1 January 2017 the Ministry of Defence (MOD) civilian personnel strength (full-time equivalent) stood at 56,170. Full details of the strengths, intake and outflow of all civilian personnel employed by the Ministry of Defence can be found in the Quarterly Civilian Personnel Report, the latest edition of which (1 January 2017) can be found at the following address: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/mod-civilian-personnel-quarterly-report-2017.</p><p>The Future Defence Civilian Programme is reshaping the MOD Civil Service workforce to focus on its core Civil Servant roles. As part of this transformation, we will seek to optimise the size of the MOD Civil Service, ensuring that we get maximum value for the taxpayer, and, wherever possible, rebalance our investments towards the front line. Our approach to achieving the reductions directed by the 2015 Strategic Defence and Security Review, and the associated financial and headcount spending review targets is being developed to establish a Civil Service that adds maximum value to the Whole Force. This approach has the explicit aim of strengthening our change capability and will be communicated when our plans are finalised.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 28/03/2017 15:36:13 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	4402 label Biography information for Douglas Chapman

683354

registered interest
date	02/02/2017
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many former prisoners have been employed by his Department in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	62953
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2017 answer text <p>The information is not held centrally for Service personnel or civil servants and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 09/02/2017 15:36:58 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

682967

registered interest
date	01/02/2017
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many civilian staff were employed by his Department, by civil service grade, in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	62658
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2017 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave him on 2 February 2017 to Question No 62302.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 06/02/2017 16:20:12 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton attachment 1 file name Hansard Extract 2 February 2017 HOC 62302.docx title Ministry of Defence: Staff
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

682275

registered interest
date	31/01/2017
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many full-time, non-reservist (a) doctors and (b) nurses are employed by (i) the Army and (ii) his Department.
tabling member constituency	Colchester
tabling member printed	Will Quince
uin	62599
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2017 answer text <p>As at 1 October 2016, there were the following numbers of personnel:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Profession </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Army</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total All Services</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Trained full-time, non-reservist doctors</p></td><td><p>321</p></td><td><p>612</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Trained full-time, non-reservist nurses (including healthcare assistants)</p></td><td><p>784</p></td><td><p>1,380</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Also, as at 1 October 2016, there were 243 civilian doctors (medical practitioners and consultants) and 396 civilian nurses (including healthcare assistants).</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 03/02/2017 14:03:51 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	4423 label Biography information for Will Quince

681295

registered interest
date	30/01/2017
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many civilian staff by civil service grade were employed by his Department in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	62302
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2017 answer text <p>The number of civilian staff, by civil service grade, employed by the Ministry of Defence in each year since 2010, is published in Annex Table 1b - Civilian personnel numbers by Top Level Budgetary Area1 (Head Count) in the 1 October 2016 issue of the Ministry of Defence Civilian Personnel Quarterly Statistics.</p><p>This publication can be found on the Gov.UK website at:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/mod-civilian-personnel-quarterly-statistics-index</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 02/02/2017 16:26:53 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

657054

registered interest
date	12/12/2016
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what measures his Department has in place to support those of its staff who have mental health problems.
tabling member constituency	Faversham and Mid Kent
tabling member printed	Helen Whately
uin	57217
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2016 answer text <p>Maintaining good levels of mental health and wellbeing is achieved using a 'through life approach' and the application of a wide range of measures based around a model of prevention, early detection and treatment. No system can guarantee to detect every individual at risk of mental health problems. Nevertheless, measures are in place to increase awareness at all levels.</p><p>Mental health support to members of the Armed Forces includes pre and post-operational stress management training, a wide range of psychiatric and psychological treatments, and initiatives such as Trauma Risk Management. We currently have 16 military Departments of Community Mental Health (DCMHs), which are located to be convenient for major centres of military population, and which support the provision of healthcare that is available through Service primary care facilities. In-patient care is provided in dedicated psychiatric units through a central contract the Ministry of Defence (MOD) has with a partnership of eight NHS Trusts, led by South Staffordshire and Shropshire NHS Foundation Trust.</p><p>The Armed Forces Covenant makes it clear that all members of the Armed Forces community deserve to receive the very best support and care that we can offer and it is vital to ensure that they are not disadvantaged when accessing healthcare, including treatment for mental health needs.</p><p>Civil Service Employee Policy provides a central health and well-being service to support departments in their well-being work. In 2015, the People Board agreed a strategic approach to health and well-being for the Civil Service. This identified mental health as a key priority. This strategic approach was developed into a Strategic Action Plan, which has now been successfully implemented.</p><p>The MOD has its own bespoke Employee Wellbeing Service that offers support to Civilian employees who experience mental health problems. Wellbeing Consultants are fully trained to provide support and information on a wide range of issues. We also offer a range of tools and information for employees who are experiencing mental health problems.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 19/12/2016 15:57:46 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately